Making online interactive maps with Leaflet (Part 1)
If you study or teach humanities and social sciences and are interested in digital tools, you have probably heard of…
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Beyond “Laures Kirishitan Bunko”: Digital Repositories for Studying 16th and 17th Century Japanese Christianity
By James Harry Morris Kirishitan (J. 吉利支丹/切支丹/キリシタン) were 16th and 17th Century, Japanese Roman Catholics introduced to Christianity by the…
Never Trust Al-Shamila Search Results☝️
In this post our Arabo-Islamic Studies editor Maxim digs deeper into searching full-text Arabic corpora, comparing Shamela with Elkirtasse. He shows us…
Making and Using a Twitter Bot
By James Harry Morris with thanks to Callum Morris. In August 2018, I developed the Kirishitan Collector Bot, a Twitter Bot…
Proceed with Caution! Identifying Structures using Royal Inscriptions (Part 2)
I ended my last post with the assertion that inscribed objects are found in the ‘wrong’ building – that is,…
Why Shamila? Arabic Libraries on your Computer
The most famous Arabic digital library (both online and on computer) is al-Shamila. It contains roughly 7260 Arabic books (when this…
The Shrine Database: An Interview with its Creator
By James Harry Morris with thanks to @ShrineWalker and Tomiyama Aki. Those of you who follow me on Twitter will likely be aware…
DH Project at Utrecht University: Bridging the Gap
At Utrecht University, the project ‘Bridging the Gap: Digital Humanities and the Arabic-Islamic corpus’, seeks to “harness state-of-the art…
Creating an Online Calculator (2): Algorithms and Code
By James Harry Morris Previously I uploaded a post about an online calculator that I had created for converting the shakkanhō 尺貫法…
Creating an Online Calculator for the Conversion of Shakkanhō (Japanese) Units
By James Harry Morris Introduction When I was invited to become the editor of the Japan Studies content on Digital…